DELICATE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
delicate
Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.
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- A delicate violin passage.
- Delicate china.
- A delicate flavor.
- The delicate wing of a butterfly.
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed.
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- A kite too delicate to fly safely.
- Fragile porcelain plates.
- Fragile old bones.
- A frail craft.
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact.
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- Delicate negotiations with the big powers.
- Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter.
Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety.
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- The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.
Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.
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- Almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments.
Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.
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- A surgeon's delicate touch.
Easily hurt.
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- Soft hands.
- A baby's delicate skin.
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